A Sorrowful Sanctuary Quotes

“you will soon learn that no one is thinking of you. Everyone is only thinking of themselves. You will feel liberated when you understand this.”
― Iona Whishaw, A Sorrowful Sanctuary

“This party started out as a Nazi party in the thirties. Just because we went to war with Germany doesn’t mean the Germans were wrong. That’s why our leaders were thrown in jail. Obviously we don’t use that sort of terminology anymore. It doesn’t look well. But the values are the same. Good, strong, Christian, and British values. And we should fight to keep foreigners out of here. They bring their ways here and try to dilute what we have.”
― Iona Whishaw, A Sorrowful Sanctuary

“We need to get back to the real roots of this country, to the loyalty we owe the Gracious Sovereign, to the maintenance of order and unity, to respect for authority. We need to be moved by our faith in God and a spirit of obedience. That is what I am offering, gentlemen. That is what I am offering. Who here would not want our great Dominion to be ruled by these simple and unassailable principles?”
― Iona Whishaw, A Sorrowful Sanctuary

“How often did businessmen with a high profile and dubious business practices manage to charm their way into public office?”
― Iona Whishaw, A Sorrowful Sanctuary

“Everyone wears fear differently, Lane thought. Mrs. Castle was a woman who had clearly had a hard life. Perhaps fear for her was an angry, mute, hard knot inside her.”
― Iona Whishaw, A Sorrowful Sanctuary